Sustainable Development Summit Archives - United Nations Sustainable Development /sustainabledevelopment/blog/category/sustainable-development-summit/ 17 Goals to Transform Our World Tue, 06 May 2025 21:05:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Explainers /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2023/08/explainers/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 05:03:26 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=111079 What is sustainable development? Marine Biodiversity: Landmark Agreement Adopted What is Biodiversity? What is Plastic Pollution? Financing For Development: What to Know Now

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]]> Fast Facts – Financing For Development: What to Know Now /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2023/08/explainer-financing-for-development-what-to-know-now/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 04:12:58 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=111159 Too much and not enough  The world is full of money. Add up real estate, equities and other assets held by households, corporations, governments and financial institutions and the number falls in the trillions. So why has there been such a struggle to achieve the global Sustainable Development Goals. Answer: because too much money [...]

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]]> Fast Facts – What is Biodiversity? /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2023/08/explainer-what-is-biodiversity/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 03:52:04 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=111151 Biological diversity refers to the variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns it forms. It is vital to protect the vast array of species which our planet has, but in striving for human development, this often takes a backseat. In fact, according to the United Nations Environmental Programme, human activity is pushing [...]

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]]> Fast Facts – What is Plastic Pollution? /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2023/08/explainer-what-is-plastic-pollution/ Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:42:16 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=111116 On average, the world is producing 430 million tonnes of plastic per year - two thirds of which are only used for a short period of time. Wrappers for our chocolate bars, packets for our crisps and plastic utensils for our lunch. But, this brief life cycle has consequences; every day, the equivalent of [...]

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]]> Fast Facts – Marine Biodiversity: Landmark Agreement Adopted /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2023/08/marine-biodiversity-landmark-agreement-adopted/ Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:15:05 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=110935 Marine Biodiversity: Landmark Agreement Adopted After nearly two decades of negotiations,  countries convened at UN Headquarters in New York on 19 June 2023 to adopt a historic agreement to advance conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. The new agreement “is critical to addressing [...]

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]]> Fast Facts – What is Sustainable Development? /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2023/08/what-is-sustainable-development/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:22:54 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=110919 Sustainable development is how we must live today if we want a better tomorrow, by meeting present needs without compromising the chances of future generations to meet their needs. The survival of our societies and our shared planet depends on a more sustainable world. It’s a bit of a juggling [...]

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]]> Move the Dial: Solutions to Transform the World /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2023/05/solutions-2/ Wed, 24 May 2023 21:45:21 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=109723 With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at midpoint, our common future is in peril. For the first time in decades, development progress is reversing under the combined impacts of climate disasters, conflict, economic downtown and lingering COVID-19 effects. More people are poor. Inequalities have widened. Gender equality is going backwards. More people are [...]

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]]> UN 2023 SDG Summit /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2023/05/un-2023-sdg-summit/ Sun, 21 May 2023 20:02:18 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=109683 Securing A Sustainable Future The United Nations will convene the SDG Summit on 18-19 September 2023 at its Headquarters in New York, during the General Assembly high-level week. With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at midpoint, world leaders will carry out a comprehensive review of the state of the 17 Sustainable Development [...]

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]]> UN Summit on Sustainable Development Goals kickstarts ambitious action to deliver for people and the planet /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/09/un-sdg-summit-opens/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:47:14 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=73377 PRESS RELEASE States, businesses and civil society gear up for decisive decade for Agenda 2030 New York, 24 September 2019– Four years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and with efforts off track for meeting its objectives, world leaders today called for a decade of ambitious action to deliver [...]

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]]> Commitments Made at Sustainable Development Summit to Kickstart Implementation of Global Goals /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/09/commitments-made-at-sustainable-development-summit-to-kickstart-implementation-of-global-goals/ Sun, 27 Sep 2015 23:46:50 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=10546 The Sustainable Development Summit which wrapped up today, successfully galvanized support for the implementation of the ambitious and historic new Sustainable Development Agenda that countries adopted on Friday, 25 September.

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]]> Sustainable Development Summit Day 2 – in pictures /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/09/sustainable-development-summit-day-2-in-pictures/ Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:30:52 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=10296 Key highlights from the second day of the Summit.

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]]> Sustainable Development Summit highlights Day 1 – in pictures /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/09/sustainable-development-summit-highlights-day-1/ Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:27:55 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=10041 UN Sustainable Development Summit Day 1 in photos

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]]> Historic New Sustainable Development Agenda Unanimously Adopted by 193 UN Members /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/09/historic-new-sustainable-development-agenda-unanimously-adopted-by-193-un-members/ Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:41:17 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=10016 A bold new global agenda to end poverty by 2030 and pursue a sustainable future was unanimously adopted today by the 193 Member States of the United Nations at the start of a three-day Summit on Sustainable Development.

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]]> UN and partners to highlight innovations for achieving Sustainable Development Goals at Solutions Summit /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/08/solutions-summit/ Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:02:25 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=7791 In a bid to find new and creative solutions to world issues, the UN, along with partner organisations, will be highlighting key work done by innovators from across the world. These will be projects that have already been looking at how to address some of the problems the sustainable development goals also aim to tackle.

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